Exodus 11 - 12, Luke 23, Psalm 57 — Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh Says One More Plague

11Then Yahweh said to Moses, “One more plague I will bring on Pharaoh and on Egypt; ^aafter that he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out from here completely. ²“Speak now in the ¹hearing of the people so that ^aeach man may ask from his neighbor and each woman from her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold.” ³^a(And Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. ^bMoreover, the man Moses himself was very great in the land of Egypt, both in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.)

⁴So Moses said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘About ^amidnight I am going out into the midst of Egypt, ⁵and ^aall the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the servant-girl who is behind the millstones; and all the firstborn of the cattle. ⁶‘Moreover, there shall be ^aa great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been before and such as shall never be again. ⁷‘^aBut for any of the sons of Israel a dog will not even ¹bark, whether against man or beast, that you may know how Yahweh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’ ⁸“^aThen all these your servants will come down to me and bow themselves ¹before me, saying, ‘Go out, you and all the people who ²follow you,’ and after that I will go out.” ^bAnd he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

⁹Then Yahweh said to Moses, “^aPharaoh will not listen to you, so ^bthat My miraculous wonders will be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” ¹⁰^aNow Moses and Aaron did all these miraculous wonders before Pharaoh; yet ^bYahweh ¹hardened Pharaoh’s heart with strength, and he did not let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

The Passover Lamb

12Now Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in the land of ¹Egypt, ²“^aThis month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. ³“Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a ¹lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a ²lamb for ³each household. ⁴‘Now if the household is too small for a ¹lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the ²number of persons in them; according to ³what each man should eat, you are to ⁴apportion the lamb. ⁵‘Your ¹lamb shall be ^aa male, without blemish, a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. ⁶‘¹And you shall keep it until the ^afourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it ²^,^bat twilight. ⁷‘^aMoreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel ¹of the houses in which they eat it. ⁸‘And they shall eat the flesh ^athat night, ^broasted with fire, and they shall eat it with ^cunleavened bread ¹^,^dand bitter herbs. ⁹‘Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather ^aroasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with ^bits entrails. ¹⁰‘^aAnd you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire. ¹¹‘Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is ^athe Passover of Yahweh. ¹²‘And ^aI will go through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and ^bagainst all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—^cI am Yahweh. ¹³‘^aAnd the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague among you ¹to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

¹⁴‘Now ^athis day will be ^ba memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as ¹^,^ca perpetual statute. ¹⁵‘^aSeven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall ¹remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, ^bthat ²person shall be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶‘^aNow on the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten ¹by every person, that alone may be done by you. ¹⁷‘You shall also keep ^athe Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this ^bvery day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as ¹^,^ca perpetual statute. ¹⁸‘^aIn the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ¹⁹‘^aSeven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that ¹^,^bperson shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. ²⁰‘You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your places of habitation you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

²¹Then ^aMoses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “¹Bring out and ^btake for yourselves ²lambs according to your families and slaughter ^cthe Passover lamb. ²²“^aAnd you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and ¹touch some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the doorway of his house until morning. ²³“And ^aYahweh will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will ^bnot allow the ^cdestroyer to come into your houses to smite you. ²⁴“And ^ayou shall keep this event as a statute for you and your children forever. ²⁵“And it will be, when you enter the land which Yahweh will give you, as He has ¹promised, you shall keep this new ²slavery. ²⁶“^aAnd it will be when your children say to you, ‘¹What is the meaning of this new slavery to you?’ ²⁷that you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to ^aYahweh who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but delivered our homes.’” ^bAnd the people bowed low and worshiped.

²⁸Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Death of the Firstborn of Egypt

²⁹Now it happened at ^amidnight that ^bYahweh struck all ^cthe firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the ¹dungeon, and all the firstborn of ^dcattle. ³⁰Then Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was ^aa great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead. ³¹Then ^ahe called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, ^bget out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, ¹serve Yahweh, as you have spoken. ³²“Take ^aboth your flocks and your herds, as you have spoken, and go, and bless me also.”

Israel Goes Out from Egypt

³³^aAnd the Egyptians strongly pressed the people to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We will all be dead.” ³⁴So the people took up ^atheir dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.

³⁵^aNow the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses—they had asked from the Egyptians for articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; ³⁶and Yahweh had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they ^aplundered the Egyptians.

³⁷And the ^asons of Israel journeyed from ^bRameses to Succoth, about ^csix hundred thousand men on foot, aside from the little ones. ³⁸A ¹^,^aforeign multitude also went up with them, ²along with flocks and herds, a ^bvery ³large number of livestock. ³⁹And they baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become leavened, since they were ^adriven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they ¹prepared any provisions for themselves.

⁴⁰Now the time ¹that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was ^a430 years. ⁴¹And it happened at the end of 430 years, ¹to ^athe very day, that ^ball the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt. ⁴²^aIt is a night to be kept for Yahweh for having brought them out from the land of Egypt; this night is for Yahweh, to be kept ¹by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

The Statute of the Passover

⁴³And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of ^athe Passover: no ¹^,^bforeigner shall eat of it; ⁴⁴but every man’s ^aslave purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it. ⁴⁵“^aA foreign resident or a hired person shall not eat of it. ⁴⁶“It shall be eaten in a single house; you shall not bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, ^aand you shall not break any bone of it. ⁴⁷“^aAll the congregation of Israel shall ¹celebrate this. ⁴⁸“But ^aif a sojourner sojourns with you and ¹celebrates the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to ²celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it. ⁴⁹“¹^,^aThe same law shall ²apply to the native as to the sojourner who sojourns among you.”

⁵⁰So all the sons of Israel did; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, thus they did. ⁵¹And on that same day ^aYahweh brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt ¹^,^bby their hosts.

Jesus Before Pilate

23Then their whole assembly rose up and ^abrought Him before Pilate. ²^aAnd they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man ^bmisleading our nation and ^cforbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is ¹Christ, a King.” ³So Pilate asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?” And He answered him and said, “^aYou yourself say it.” ⁴Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “^aI find no guilt in this man.” ⁵But they kept on insisting, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching all over Judea, ^astarting from Galilee even as far as this place.”

⁶Now when Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean. ⁷And when he learned that He belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to ^aHerod, who himself also was in Jerusalem in those days.

Jesus Before Herod

⁸Now when Herod saw Jesus, he rejoiced greatly; for ^ahe had wanted to see Him for a long time, because he had been hearing about Him and was hoping to see some ¹sign performed by Him. ⁹And he questioned Him ¹at some length, but ^aHe answered him nothing. ¹⁰And the chief priests and the scribes were standing there, vehemently accusing Him. ¹¹And Herod with his soldiers, after treating Him with contempt and mocking Him, ^adressed Him in a bright robe and sent Him back to Pilate. ¹²Now ^aHerod and Pilate became friends with one another that very day; for before they had been at enmity with each other.

Pilate Grants the Crowd’s Request

¹³And Pilate summoned the chief priests and the ^arulers and the people, ¹⁴and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one who ¹^,^aincites the people to rebellion, and behold, having examined Him before you, I ^bhave found in this man no guilt of what you are accusing Him. ¹⁵“No, nor has ^aHerod, for he sent Him back to us; and behold, nothing deserving death has been done by Him. ¹⁶“Therefore I will ^apunish Him and release Him.” ¹⁷¹[Now he was obliged to release to them at the feast one prisoner.]

¹⁸But they cried out all together, saying, “^aAway with this man, and release for us Barabbas!” ¹⁹(He had been thrown into prison for an insurrection made in the city and for murder.) ²⁰But again Pilate addressed them, wanting to release Jesus, ²¹but they kept on calling out, saying, “Crucify, crucify Him!” ²²And he said to them a third time, “Why, what evil has this man done? I have found in Him no guilt worthy of death; therefore I will ^apunish Him and release Him.” ²³But they were insistent, with loud voices asking that He be crucified. And their voices were prevailing. ²⁴And Pilate pronounced sentence that their demand be granted. ²⁵And he released the man they were asking for who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, but he delivered Jesus to their will.

Simon Carries the Cross

²⁶^aAnd when they led Him away, they took hold of a man, Simon of ^bCyrene, coming in from the country, and placed on him the cross to carry behind Jesus.

²⁷And following Him was a large multitude of the people, and of women who were ¹^,^amourning and lamenting Him. ²⁸But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop crying for Me, but cry for yourselves and for your children. ²⁹“For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘^aBlessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ ³⁰“Then they will begin to ^asay to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ ³¹“For if they do these things ¹when the tree is green, what will happen ²when it is dry?”

³²^aNow two others also, who were criminals, were being led away to be put to death with Him.

The Crucifixion

³³^aAnd when they came to the place called ¹The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. ³⁴¹But Jesus was saying, “^aFather, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” ^bAnd they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves. ³⁵And the people stood by, looking on. And even the ^arulers were scoffing at Him, saying, “He saved others; ^blet Him save Himself if this is the ¹Christ of God, His Chosen One.” ³⁶And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, ^aoffering Him sour wine, ³⁷and saying, “^aIf You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself!” ³⁸Now there was also an inscription above Him, “^aTHIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

³⁹^aAnd one of the criminals hanging there was blaspheming Him, saying, “Are You not the ¹Christ? ^bSave Yourself and us!” ⁴⁰But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? ⁴¹“And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving ¹what we deserve for what we have done; but this man has done nothing wrong.” ⁴²And he was saying, “Jesus, remember me when You come ¹in Your kingdom!” ⁴³And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in ^aParadise.”

⁴⁴^aAnd it was now about ¹^,^bthe sixth hour, and darkness ²fell over the whole land until ³the ninth hour, ⁴⁵¹because the sun was obscured. And ^athe veil of the ²sanctuary was torn ³in two. ⁴⁶And Jesus, ^acrying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, ^binto Your hands I commit My spirit.” Having said this, He breathed His last. ⁴⁷^aNow when the centurion saw what had happened, he began ^bpraising God, saying, “Certainly this man was righteous.” ⁴⁸And all the crowds who came together for this spectacle, when they observed what had happened, were returning, ¹^,^abeating their chests. ⁴⁹^aAnd all His acquaintances and ^bthe women who accompanied Him from Galilee were standing at a distance, watching these things.

Jesus Is Buried

⁵⁰^aAnd behold, a man named Joseph, who was a ^bCouncil member, a good and righteous man ⁵¹(he had not consented to their counsel and action), a man from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who was ^awaiting for the kingdom of God; ⁵²this man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. ⁵³And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had ever lain. ⁵⁴It was ¹^,^aPreparation day, and the Sabbath was about to ²begin. ⁵⁵Now ^athe women, who had come with Him from Galilee, followed and beheld the tomb and how His body was laid. ⁵⁶Then after they returned, they ^aprepared spices and perfumes. And ^bon the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Let Your Glory Be Above All the Earth

For the choir director. ¹Al-tashheth. Of David. A ²Mikhtam. ³When he fled from Saul in the cave.

Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,For my soul ^atakes refuge in You;And in the ^bshadow of Your wings I will take refugeUntil destruction ^cpasses by.²I will call to God Most High,To God who ^aaccomplishes all things for me.³He will ^asend from heaven and save me;He reproaches him who ¹^,^btramples upon me. ² Selah.God will send His ^clovingkindness and His ³truth.⁴My soul is among ^alions;I am lying down among those who breathe forth fire,Sons of men whose ^bteeth are spears and arrowsAnd their ^ctongue a sharp sword.⁵^aBe exalted above the heavens, O God;Let Your glory be above all the earth.⁶They have ¹set a ^anet for my steps;My soul is ^bbowed down;They ^cdug a pit before me;They themselves have ^dfallen into the midst of it. Selah.⁷^aMy ^bheart is set, O God, my heart is set;I will sing, yes, I will sing praises!⁸Awake, ^amy glory!Awake, ^bharp and lyre!I will awaken the dawn.⁹^aI will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples;I will sing praises to You among the ¹nations.¹⁰For Your ^alovingkindness is great to the heavensAnd Your ¹truth to the skies.¹¹^aBe exalted above the heavens, O God;Let Your glory be above all the earth.